He went to Rajasthan to make a film in 1994. Years later, filmmaker Pradip Krishen was restoring a 70-hectare desert landscape by removing an invasive tree and bringing native ecology back

In 1994, Pradip Krishen went to Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh to shoot a film. He could hardly have known that the trip would set him on a completely different path. While working on Electric Moon , Krishen began taking “Latin walks” with a neighbour who was a forester and knew trees by their scientific names. What started as a curiosity about plants gradually became a lifelong fascination with India's native trees, shrubs and landscapes. The report is sourced from Current Conservation and Scroll.

Years later, that interest would lead him to one of his most ambitious projects in Rajasthan: restoring the rocky landscape around Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur.